Report: Alcoholic comes home drunk; wife gets all punchy

Published: Friday, February 7, 2014 at 01:36 PM.

NICEVILLE – A man came home drunk after four months of sobriety, and his wife didn’t take kindly to his new-found state of intoxication, according to an arrest report.

The saga began with a phone call from the man, who contacted the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office from a convenience store on State Road 20. He was calling to report that his wife attacked him.

He told a deputy he and his wife have been married five years, live together, and have three kids together. He said he was a recovering alcoholic and had been sober four months.

He left their residence that day and came home drunk that night. When he did, his wife “attacked” him, he said. She yelled at him for drinking, hit him several times in the chest with her fist, and if he remembered correctly she pushed him out the front door. “I fell flat on my face,” the man told the deputy, who noted he didn’t have any visible injuries.

The wife told a slightly different story. She agreed they’d been married five years, had three children together and her husband was an alcoholic. She said he came homedrunk that night and she yelled at him, asking where he got the money to drink, where he drank, and with whom did he drank. She said she cried and after he told her he’d been drinking, she made him sit on the couch in the living room. When he tried to stand up she slapped him in the face, and when he walked out the front door he stumbled and fell down without her pushing him.

The deputy decided the wife was the aggressor and charged her with misdemeanor battery. Her plea date is Feb. 18.

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NICEVILLE – A man came home drunk after four months of sobriety, and his wife didn’t take kindly to his new-found state of intoxication, according to an arrest report.

The saga began with a phone call from the man, who contacted the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office from a convenience store on State Road 20. He was calling to report that his wife attacked him.

He told a deputy he and his wife have been married five years, live together, and have three kids together. He said he was a recovering alcoholic and had been sober four months.

He left their residence that day and came home drunk that night. When he did, his wife “attacked” him, he said. She yelled at him for drinking, hit him several times in the chest with her fist, and if he remembered correctly she pushed him out the front door. “I fell flat on my face,” the man told the deputy, who noted he didn’t have any visible injuries.

The wife told a slightly different story. She agreed they’d been married five years, had three children together and her husband was an alcoholic. She said he came homedrunk that night and she yelled at him, asking where he got the money to drink, where he drank, and with whom did he drank. She said she cried and after he told her he’d been drinking, she made him sit on the couch in the living room. When he tried to stand up she slapped him in the face, and when he walked out the front door he stumbled and fell down without her pushing him.

The deputy decided the wife was the aggressor and charged her with misdemeanor battery. Her plea date is Feb. 18.